Reddit Programming Top Weekly 2025#16

1. Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years
   by CrankyBear at 2025-04-11
   354 reddit comments
2. Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
   by Rtzon at 2025-04-12
   330 reddit comments
3. CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract, leaving security flaw tracking in limbo
   by klaasvanschelven at 2025-04-16
   197 reddit comments
4. Microsoft: Node.js Increasingly Used for Malware Delivery and Data Theft
   by nick313 at 2025-04-16
   110 reddit comments
5. C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
   by Active-Fuel-49 at 2025-04-14
   158 reddit comments
6. AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain
   by FlukeHawkins at 2025-04-13
   187 reddit comments
7. Make Python great again!
   by Pedry-dev at 2025-04-15
   67 reddit comments
8. Github Copilot auto-enabled itself on my private local workspaces without my consent
   by rektbuildr at 2025-04-16
   43 reddit comments
9. TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days
   by tofino_dreaming at 2025-04-16
   136 reddit comments
10. OpenSSH 10 relies on standards for quantum-safe key exchange
    by donutloop at 2025-04-11
    28 reddit comments
11. Engineers who won't commit
    by klaasvanschelven at 2025-04-14
    115 reddit comments
12. Tauri vs. Electron Benchmark: ~58% Less Memory, ~96% Smaller Bundle – Our Findings and Why We Chose Tauri
    by kostakos14 at 2025-04-11
    71 reddit comments
13. (All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-17
    145 reddit comments
14. A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
    by XLEX97 at 2025-04-12
    34 reddit comments
15. The false productivity promise of AI-assisted development
    by traderprof at 2025-04-15
    213 reddit comments
16. Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    86 reddit comments
17. Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-16
    17 reddit comments
18. LLMs vs Compilers: Why the Rules Don't Align
    by OpinionQuiet5374 at 2025-04-13
    66 reddit comments
19. Ship Software That Does Nothing
    by KerrickLong at 2025-04-13
    48 reddit comments
20. What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt
    by goto-con at 2025-04-16
    37 reddit comments
21. Writing Slow Code (On Purpose)
    by FoxInTheRedBox at 2025-04-15
    14 reddit comments
22. "Serbia: Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist" -- "The exploit, which targeted Linux kernel USB drivers, enabled Cellebrite customers with physical access to a locked Android device to bypass" the "lock screen and gain privileged access on the device." [PDF]
    by throwaway16830261 at 2025-04-17
    21 reddit comments
23. The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-15
    12 reddit comments
24. You might not need WebSockets
    by namanyayg at 2025-04-13
    41 reddit comments
25. Interactive Git Log – A Smarter Git GUI for VSCode
    by dashmn210 at 2025-04-12
    26 reddit comments
26. IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 Released
    by mateusnr at 2025-04-16
    38 reddit comments
27. Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-16
    6 reddit comments
28. Hako: an embeddable, lightweight, secure, high-performance JavaScript engine.
    by AndrewMD5 at 2025-04-14
    12 reddit comments
29. CISA extends funding to ensure 'no lapse in critical CVE services'
    by w0lf_r1ght at 2025-04-16
    0 reddit comments
30. Rust to C compiler - 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    9 reddit comments
31. Steve Jobs presents - OpenStep's Interface builder
    by NSRedditShitposter at 2025-04-14
    60 reddit comments
32. How we clone a running VM in 2 seconds
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-11
    10 reddit comments
33. Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-11
    1 reddit comments
34. Default styles for h1 elements are changing
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-11
    3 reddit comments
35. iOS 18.4 - dlsym considered harmful
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-17
    4 reddit comments
36. How A Hacker Used My Staging Environment for Phishing
    by abduvik at 2025-04-16
    22 reddit comments
37. how actually JavaScript works behind the scenes
    by FederalRace5393 at 2025-04-14
    8 reddit comments
38. How Indexes Work in Partitioned Databases
    by scalablethread at 2025-04-12
    0 reddit comments
39. What the Hell Is a Target Triple?
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-15
    12 reddit comments
40. Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    4 reddit comments
41. Graphics programming like it's 2000 – An esoteric introduction to PlayStation 2 graphics – Part 1
    by NXGZ at 2025-04-11
    1 reddit comments
42. I implemented HOTP & TOTP from scratch to understand how one-time passwords work
    by Dogacel at 2025-04-11
    7 reddit comments
43. How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    6 reddit comments
44. Stop Just Loosening Coupling — Start Strengthening Cohesion Too
    by Ok-Run-8832 at 2025-04-13
    3 reddit comments
45. Advanced Messaging Patterns: Blackboard - For Zero-Copy Inter-Process Communication
    by elfenpiff at 2025-04-12
    2 reddit comments
46. Diskless Kafka: 80% Leaner, 100% Open
    by sh_tomer at 2025-04-17
    17 reddit comments
47. Development On Apple Silicon with UTM
    by askoma at 2025-04-17
    2 reddit comments
48. Flat origami is Turing complete
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-15
    2 reddit comments
49. My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules
    by namanyayg at 2025-04-13
    2 reddit comments
50. Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Language (1981)
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    12 reddit comments
51. Why Fennel? (a programming language that runs on the Lua runtime)
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    26 reddit comments
52. Two Years of Rust
    by simon_o at 2025-04-16
    11 reddit comments
53. Guy live codes music and editor in BASIC/Commodore64
    by averroeis at 2025-04-14
    14 reddit comments
54. Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
    by WesternBest at 2025-04-17
    5 reddit comments
55. Oracle: Preparing for Post Quantum Cryptography
    by donutloop at 2025-04-11
    6 reddit comments
56. Earthly shutting down Earthfiles
    by ketchupANmustard at 2025-04-17
    2 reddit comments
57. Replacing CVE
    by gavinhoward at 2025-04-16
    7 reddit comments
58. Is SpacetimeDB a Yak-Shaving Success Story?
    by whiirl at 2025-04-16
    39 reddit comments
59. Cloudflare - Prepping for post-quantum: a beginner's guide to lattice cryptography
    by donutloop at 2025-04-13
    0 reddit comments
60. A Case for Lua Performance
    by _Sharp_ at 2025-04-12
    5 reddit comments
61. An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System
    by self at 2025-04-17
    2 reddit comments
62. Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates
    by mariuz at 2025-04-11
    0 reddit comments
63. Designing a fast RNG for SIMD, GPUs, and shaders
    by PsychoticDaydreams at 2025-04-15
    0 reddit comments
64. We should talk more about Architecture Congruency
    by chrisza4 at 2025-04-12
    7 reddit comments
65. Why I Program in Lisp
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-11
    35 reddit comments
66. Hacking the Postgres Statistics Tables for Faster Queries
    by craigkerstiens at 2025-04-16
    0 reddit comments
67. A HTML-CSS-JS quine that syntax-highlights itself
    by finnhvman at 2025-04-14
    4 reddit comments
68. Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr)
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    12 reddit comments
69. Monolith-First - are you sure?
    by Adventurous-Salt8514 at 2025-04-14
    17 reddit comments
70. Building Transformers from Scratch ... in Python
    by dtseng123 at 2025-04-11
    0 reddit comments
71. Four Kinds of Optimisation
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-16
    1 reddit comments
72. Learn how react works by building your own framework
    by Eastern_Selection_64 at 2025-04-14
    8 reddit comments
73. Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    2 reddit comments
74. Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python
    by namanyayg at 2025-04-13
    1 reddit comments
75. GitHub - codr7/hacktical-c: A practical hacker's guide to the C programming language.
    by ChiliPepperHott at 2025-04-16
    1 reddit comments
76. gRPC API Gateway: Bridging the Gap Between REST and gRPC
    by ZuploAdrian at 2025-04-11
    0 reddit comments
77. Programming in PostScript – Retro Coding Fun: Games on Your Printer
    by Dull_Replacement8890 at 2025-04-11
    1 reddit comments
78. The Forgotten Syntax of Salt and Gold: How the Merchants of Ifriqiya Coded Commerce Before Silicon
    by Practical_Estate4971 at 2025-04-16
    3 reddit comments
79. A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-15
    0 reddit comments
80. I wrote a program that can play Super Hexagon with Computer Vision
    by Catz1010 at 2025-04-13
    5 reddit comments
81. Build Your Own Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare and Python in Minutes
    by docaicdev at 2025-04-11
    3 reddit comments
82. The Story Behind K2 Mode and How It Works
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-16
    0 reddit comments
83. protobuf-ts-types: zero-codegen TypeScript type inference from protobuf messages
    by 18nleung at 2025-04-14
    4 reddit comments
84. Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    1 reddit comments
85. WebRTC for the Curious
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-11
    0 reddit comments
86. Knowledge graphs, part 1 | Gel Blog
    by 1st1 at 2025-04-11
    0 reddit comments
87. Nanoseconds-overhead C++ tracer
    by justmyrandomusername at 2025-04-17
    2 reddit comments
88. A plugin-based gateway that orchestrates other MCPs and allows developers to build upon it enterprise-grade agents.
    by woltan_4 at 2025-04-16
    0 reddit comments
89. An Introduction to Modern CMake
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-16
    2 reddit comments
90. Classic Logisim running in the Browser, powered by CheerpJ and WebAssembly
    by RegularLayout at 2025-04-16
    1 reddit comments
91. Scoped Values in Java 25
    by henk53 at 2025-04-15
    2 reddit comments
92. How to be the best programmer, according to Daniel Terhorst-North
    by shift_devs at 2025-04-15
    25 reddit comments
93. Structured logging in .NET with NativeAOT
    by macrohard_certified at 2025-04-15
    1 reddit comments
94. A Guide to Bearer Tokens: JWT vs. Opaque Tokens
    by Permit_io at 2025-04-11
    0 reddit comments
95. Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-15
    0 reddit comments
96. ASCII Lookup Utility in Ada
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-15
    0 reddit comments
97. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    1 reddit comments
98. Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    0 reddit comments
99. awe: A compiler for the Algol W programming language
    by ketralnis at 2025-04-14
    0 reddit comments
100. Java 21 Coding Practice Example- Hospital Management System
     by erdsingh24 at 2025-04-11
     0 reddit comments